Now with the clear seeing of my own role in the cosmos, equanimity should follow subject to of course the relative state of being.
Since everything happens for a larger purpose, and my personal wishes or otherwise is not to primary objective for the action, it follows that personal joy and sorrow are results of identification with a specific result or outcome in my mind.
However, one cannot deny the physical experience of joy or sorrow when any event occurs. One needs to experience it and while experiencing it try to get a clear seeing because while at an intellectual level there is no identification, the fact of an experience of a personal joy or sorrow is evidence of deeper identification.
It seems increasingly clear that desires have no significance except to goad one into action. Similarly also fears. Neither has any semblance in reality and there is no guarantee that with efforts either your desires will be fulfilled or your fears come true. There is a plan for everyone.
The action there fore can only be to do what one is told. Even prayer has to told when one is called to provide that material. Sometimes one is called in times of deep crisis sometimes in times of great success and sometimes just like that. Prayer is in some sense a return of the material transformed by our system directly to the source.
Life then needs to be lived understanding that nothing is mine. We have to live every moment being alive and yet not wanting anything for oneself. What one needs is understood better than us by the forces that brought us here into this planet and to submit to that is the only way to live a life with a semblance of order and meaning. Sometimes this understanding can also alleviate suffering especially if one can clearly see that the forces are too large for your tiny wishes and desires to come true easily. If one's wishes indeed do come true as one had planned , then it is possible that either, one was in sync with the plan of the universe and did every act thereafter towards that goal, in complete lawful conformity and compliance. Alternatively, it was achieved by the force of the ego, breaking natural order and will therefore leave a recoil in terms of karmic balancing act.
How does one align with the universe is still a great mystery but a possible direction towards it would be relinquishing the fruits of the action right from the inception of the desire. Ascribe it to the wish of a god who has placed that wish as a seed of personal desire in me but I am here to do what the god wants to achieve and not to fulfill my desire. If the work of the gods are done lawfully , I will get my reward but I must be surprised and astonished.
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